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Research to alleviate poverty in the face of industrialisation of livestock production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

Ann Waters-Bayer
Affiliation:
ETC Ecoculture, POB 64, NL-3830 AB Leusden, Netherlands
Wolfgang Bayer
Affiliation:
Independent advisor, Rohnsweg 56, D-37085 Göttingen, Germany
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Economic projections into the year 2020 (Delgado et al., 1999) indicate that the global demand for animal products will increase sharply, particularly in developing countries, and suggest that the bulk of the increased production to meet this demand will come from large-scale, industrial production. Many smallholders in developing countries depend at least partly on livestock as a source of livelihood; for pastoralists, livestock are by definition the main source of livelihood.

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